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French in Action, Workbook, Part 2 A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method
ISBN: PB: 9780300176131, Yale University Press, July 2016
608 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illus.
Since it was first published, "French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture – The Capretz Method" has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition has been...
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£40,00
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Danny Lyon Message to the Future
ISBN: HB: 9780300218831, Yale University Press, June 2016
340 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.
Coming of age in the 1960s, the photographer Danny Lyon (b. 1942) distinguished himself with work that emphasized intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects o...
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Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
ISBN: PB: 9780300219692, ISBN: HB: 9780300185195, Yale University Press, June 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they...
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Romans and Their World A Short Introduction
ISBN: PB: 9780300220261, Yale University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.6x14.6 cm, 42 black&white illus., 10 maps, 5 plans
This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar...
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£14,99
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Mark Rothko
ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...
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Earthly Mission The Catholic Church and World Development
ISBN: PB: 9780300205428, ISBN: HB: 9780300175127, Yale University Press, April 2016
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
With 1.3 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world's largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church's obstinacy on matters like clerical celibacy, the role of women, birth control, and the child abuse scandal has alienate...
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Ji Yun-Fei Last Days of Village Wen
ISBN: PB: 9780300220322, Yale University Press, April 2016
80 pp., 25.4x29.2 cm, 50 colour illus.
Drawing upon the Cleveland Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of Chinese paintings, this volume presents an insightful study of a newly acquired work that occasions dialogue between traditional forms of art and contemporary environmental issue...
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£16,99
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Dirty Dust Cre Na Cille
ISBN: PB: 9780300219821, Yale University Press, March 2016
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel "The Dirty Dust" is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley's vigorous new t...
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Kamakura Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan
ISBN: HB: 9780300215779, Yale University Press, February 2016
192 pp., 29.9x22.2 cm, 65 colour illus.
The Kamakura period (1185-1333) is considered a pinnacle of Japanese artistic expression, often described as a renaissance in Buddhist art. This catalogue is the first in over two decades to examine the exquisite sculpture of this period, artwork cha...
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£55,00
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When Your Child Hurts Effective Strategies to Increase Comfort, Reduce Stress, and Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain
ISBN: PB: 9780300204650, Yale University Press, December 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Parents of a child in pain want nothing more than to offer immediate comfort. But a child with chronic or recurring pain requires much more. His or her parents need skills and strategies not only for increasing comfort but also for helping their chil...
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